78th Post Jesus Teaching on Eternal Life Con't. - John 3: 16 - 21.

John 3: 16 21. This passage comes very early in Jesus earthly ministry, not long after Jesus encounter with Nicodemus. John 3:16 is very familiar to most Christians, it was probably one of the first verses you committed to memory. However, verses 17 - 21 are not so familiar, so I will print them here. 17."For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19. And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. 20. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21. But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God." It is funny that we don't look at these four verses together more often. When we do, we see this is the plan of God to reconcile man back to God after man brought sin into the world. When you read the Bible you can follow this plan from its beginning to its end in Revelation. Since the fall of man, we have been trying to find out way back to God on our own. God shows us how to get back into communion with God. All we have to do is walk back into the light and stay there by doing the will of God. It is God that draws us back into the Light, so that we can not boast in the fact that we found it. Where are you in this struggle?